Saw a British documentary movie "56-Up" yesterday afternoon at the Music Box Theater. The director, Michael Apted, wanted to show how class determines your fate and so on.... it started in 1964 as a profile of fourteen seven-year-olds for World in Action on British TV. They revisit the subjects every seven years and now they're 56. It seems to prove that the British class system is alive and well and that the first seven years of life are the most crucial in determining your fate. One of the subjects is a barrister in London and he seemed to know that he would go to Cambridge and be a barrister even at 7! The premise of the film was taken from the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" which is based on a quotation by Francis Xavier.
Here's a Chicago Tribune review of 56-Up:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-01-31/entertainment/sc-mov-0129-56-up-20130131_1_documentary-features-private-lives-kim-horton
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